The line-up for the SysPrac26 Systems Thinking Practitioner’s Conference as they were delivered.
Presentations (A–Z by last name of first presenter)
Abstracts
- Nick Beech - Viable Futures - Cybernetic governance, imagination and many worlds
- Keiron Beardmore - System Shapes, Orbital Perspectives and Spheres
- Justin Beirold - Embedding Systems Thinking at Innovate UK Business Connect: Industrial Strategy, Technology and Innovation Ecosystems
- Mike Bourne - Governance of Complex Projects
- Bridie Collins - Closing the Loop: reflections on developing system change within a local government setting
- Pauline Craig/Macmillan - Applying systems thinking to support people living with cancer
- Meriel Davies - Exploring Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management
- Melissa Dawson - Adapting How We Practice in a Constantly Changing Working Environment
- Jon Elphick - Mind the Gap…. in Weltanschauung
- Denis Fischbacher-Smith - How did it come to this?
- Helena Elisabeth Gallbo - Qualitative Differences in Attenuators: Country office to headquarters signalling in international companies
- Anne Gambles - Seeing services as systems: what does it mean to design services
- Louie Gardiner - Symmathesic Agency
- Sacha Girling - Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Rich Pictures: Following the Situation Rather than the Method
- Roelien Goede - Reporting of a CSH Project
- Simon Gough - Network Analysis and Boundary Critique
- Dave Hall - What happens when a Governance Review becomes an inquiry into how an institution learns, decides, adapts and legitimises itself?
- Timo J. Hämäläinen - Ten complexity governance principles
- Virginia de La Hamayde - Editing the system, not the document: applying systems thinking to annual report production in large public organisations
- Virginia de La Hamayde, Jessica Britton, Mel Harris & Tash Koerner - Apprentices without masters: Building systems thinking practice capability
- Edward Hilton - From a Search for Intrinsic Value to Persistent Systems: The Deductive Development of TEQR
- Olivia Horgan - Conditions of Perception: What Embodied Experience Reveals About Systems Practice Under Pressure
- Patrick Hoverstadt & Ed Straw - 42 – Addressing societal level policy problems with systems Principles
- Louis Klein - Realising the Learning Organisation - A thirty - year Odyssey along the hype cycle.
- Janne J. Korhonen - What Happens When Nothing Happens? A Metabolic Perspective on Organizational Change
- Charis Lüdtke - Building Circular economy using the Multi - flow method
- Joan Lurie - From Linear Transformation to 4D System Looping
- Simon MacCormac & John Rogers - Getting into the Mess
- Christine McNeal - Applying Soft Systems Methodology to Review Adult Skills Funding: Lessons from a First - Time Practitioner
- John Mortimer - What we can learn from the success and failure of systemic change.
- Gordon Niven - Variety Calculus: Cybernetic Methodology
- Anca Popa - Patterns of systemic relationships in change programmes
- Kai - Uwe Radde - Internalized Liabilities (obvious but invisible)
- Carola Ritzinger-Roll - From viability to measurability – Designing governance structures in highly complex and regulated organisational contexts
- Gavin Roberts - Practice in the real world
- Lesley Rowan - VSM - starting with a blank piece of paper
- Max Shen - Reducing Complexity or Relocating It? Applying VSM to NHS England’s Transition into DHSC
- Claire Tanton - System Asset or Organisation Dataset? Ethical Service User Engagement in Systems Practice
- Ivo Velitchkov - The Second Law of Technodynamics
- Jan De Visch - Beyond Sustainability
- Kim Warren - Implementing the Self - Managing Enterprise with Agentic AI
- Tim Whitcher - Systems in Symmetry: Symmetry in Systems
- Steve Whitla - Systems, purpose and the pursuit of shared meaning
- Esmee Wilcox - How might understanding tempo help systemic action in government - community interactions?
- Benjamin Wood - Closing the Loop: The Participatory and Cybernetic Founding of SCiO in North America
- Mark Workman - The application of Deep Uncertainty approaches for strategy design in possible dynamic, high dimensional futures
Workshops
- Takiyah Butler - Bridge gap between individual agency and whole system transformation
- Tim Curtis - Interactive Planning
- Louise Le Gat - Changing Mindsets
- Martin Günther - From Complexity Theory to Interaction Design: Designing for Emergence with Liberating Structures
- Patrick Hoverstadt - Viable System Model (VSM) - Balancing Complexity
- Tony Korycki - De-misting Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)
- Simon MacCormac - Managing Systems interventions
- Simon MacCormac & Patrick Hoverstadt - Multi - Methodology
- Xavier Matieni - From Systems Thinking to Systems Judgement: Exploring a Neglected Capability in Management Practice
- Carla Owen & Gavin Roberts - Systems Laws
- Gavin Roberts - Systemic Leadership
- Jan De Visch - Humanising Systems
Kim Warren - System Dynamics (SD)